R&D Team Leader – Cloud & On-Prem Infrastructure Development (Hospitality)

This role combines leadership, technical, and business responsibilities, including managing developers and QA engineers, collaborating with internal and external stakeholders, and driving modern AI-powered development practices.

The ideal candidate has significant experience leading technology teams within large-scale organizations, a proven ability to develop people and processes, and a broad systems-thinking mindset. The office is in Nesher, Haifa district.

Responsibilities

Team Leadership & People Management:

• Lead and manage a team of approximately 8 employees and QA engineers.

• Define individual and team objectives and track performance against goals.

• Mentor, coach, and develop team members both professionally and personally.

• Build career growth plans and help engineers progress from junior to senior levels.

• Foster a culture of excellence, innovation, accountability, and collaboration.

Technical Leadership

• Lead the development and operation of cloud and on-premises platforms and infrastructure.

• Own architecture, scalability, performance, security, and reliability considerations.

• Promote modern engineering standards, methodologies, and best practices.

• Drive CI/CD, automation, and DevOps initiatives.

• Integrate advanced AI tools and practices into development and testing workflows.

External Integrations & Partnerships

• Lead integrations with third-party systems, including:

• Booking.com

• Hotel websites

• Travel agents and distribution partners

• CRM platforms

• ERP systems

• Additional external systems and services

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience managing software development teams.

• Previous experience leading teams within medium-to-large organizations.

• Proven experience managing teams of at least 6 employees.

• Strong hands-on experience developing enterprise applications using .NET.

• Experience working with React.

• Practical experience with AWS cloud services.

• Experience working in Windows Server and on-premises environments.

• Experience leading CI/CD and DevOps initiatives.

• Strong knowledge of GitHub and Azure DevOps.

• Experience working in Agile development environments.

• Hands-on experience with Jira.

• Proven experience leading complex, cross-functional projects.

• Strong people management, coaching, and leadership skills.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.

• Experience in the Hospitality or Travel Tech industry – Big Advantages.

• Experience integrating with Booking platforms and Channel Managers – Big Advantages.

• Familiarity with enterprise CRM and ERP systems- Big Advantages.

• Experience working with Claude Code- Big Advantages.

• Experience with MCP (Model Context Protocol) – Big Advantages.

• Experience implementing AI-driven software development practices- Big Advantages.

• Experience building teams and leading technology transformation initiatives- Big Advantages.

• Knowledge of Cloud-Native architectures and modern distributed systems- Big Advantages.

• Proven success in mentoring and growing engineers from Junior to Senior and Tech Lead positions- Big Advantages.